Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:24:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: scott@statsci.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice Message-ID: <199704222224.AAA03370@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422073050.23995B-100000@localhost> from Doug White at "Apr 22, 97 07:32:23 am"
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Hi, The slice four is used as an extended partition that contains the logical msdos partitions, which are slices five and six. Extended partitions are not recognized by our fdisk, so it says it's unused. If you build a file system on slice four, it is overlaid by the extended partition and the logical partitions inside the extended partition. You can use slice four for FreeBSD only if you do not have logical partitions on the disk. ----------- | | | | s1 | | ----------- | | | | s2 | | ----------- | | | | s3 | | ----------- |.s5......| | | s4 (do *not* use if you have logical partitions) |.s6......| ----------- Wolfgang
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